Unable to turn away from bigotry
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Deborah Bruce
Published: March 12, 2008
Concerning the letter from Mr. Denton about Barack Obama’s Muslim background: My first instinct was to ask you why you would even print such a bigoted letter. Then I remembered that even the KKK has a constitutional right to a parade permit in this country, so by extension an editor might feel he needs to let us know that such an opinion is out there.
Mr. Denton’s words imply that anyone with any connection to the Muslim faith has no place in the president’s seat. I find that as reprehensible as anything that the Klan, or for that matter Louis Farrakhan, whose bigotry he cites, could come up with.
So, I do what I would do if the Klan should come marching in my town. My newspaper won’t let me pretend that this viewpoint does not exist, so with this letter, I pointedly, if figuratively, turn my back on it.
DEBORAH BRUCE
Manassas
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Posted by ( hacenedb ) on March 13, 2008 at 3:17 pm
People are called prejudiced and racists because they will always be the last to recognize their problem! and it is indeed their problem. But when they start legislating for all citizens by dictating their views, then they become our problem and we must confront their ideas to benefit the community and unite our energies. A racist is someone who is constantly planning attacks on one ethnic group after another. For this is a racist full-time job: to pray on the weak and the vulnerable using their color and/or their national origin while exploiting the slightest political or economic crisis. In most cases, the herd will follow the loudest not the wisest! I would have hoped the opposite were true!
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